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6/3/2018 7:00 AM
5 Fun Ideas To Promote Your Restaurant on Snapchat
Let’s face it: in the digital age, the hot new thing is old news in a matter of days. You can probably remember a time when young people were talking about this hot new thing called Facebook…and when the hot new thing was Twitter...
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5/27/2018 7:00 AM
Crash Course On Serving Up Gluten Free Options
As a restaurant owner, it’s important that you consider the needs of all people who may enter your establishment, even if a particular option is reserved for a small percentage of the population...
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5/20/2018 7:00 AM
What Do New Delivery Trends Mean for Your Restaurant Business?
Ride sharing isn’t the only smartphone app boom to disrupt an industry. The food service equivalent is app-based delivery. Those wanting to dine at home are no longer limited to pizza and General Tso’s chicken, or a takeout run. These apps make nearly any cuisine deliverable—and multiple styles for choosy group orders. So, what does this mean for local restaurants?
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5/13/2018 7:00 AM
Joining the Ethnic Food Trend With Fusion Dishes
American tastes have gotten increasingly adventurous. Basic time-worn dishes don’t bring in new patrons nearly as much as creative global flavors, and new twists on familiar food motivated by international cuisine. But even those searching out new flavors need to find them accessible—rather than unidentifiable. Restaurants that bridge the familiar with the exotic will be able to capitalize on a growing trend.
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5/6/2018 7:00 AM
4 Last Minute Mother's Day Promotions You Can Use This Sunday
Back in the day, someone’s mom said that the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. But as it turns out, the quickest way to a mom’s heart is through her stomach. Don’t believe us? A study conducted by the National Restaurant Association showed that [link 1] 32 percent of mothers who were surveyed said they’d prefer to receive a trip to their favorite restaurant with their family on Mother’s Day. Nine percent reported that they’d prefer to receive a gift card to their favorite restaurant...
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Posted By Mike Cielinski
4/29/2018 7:00 AM
An Argument For Aprons
The ever-swinging pendulum that is American popular culture has been moving towards a deconstructed, ironic hipster chic for some time now. Dirty is clean, old-fashioned is new, and people seem to find beauty in novelty, not efficiency.
Within the context of the restaurant industry, this is evident in the rising popularity of ghost restaurants, exposed brick walls with chalkboard menus haphazardly hung askew, and the fact that mustachioed waiters everywhere remain employed despite their propensity for eye-rolling every time a patron asks about the microbrew de jour...
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4/22/2018 7:00 AM
Retailers Elevate the Shopping Experience
Winning over today’s customers is more challenging than ever. The competition isn’t just from neighboring stores, but from online retail, and even other types of businesses including restaurants and experience-based entertainment. For local retail stores to keep the traffic levels high, it’s important to add new tricks to the arsenal. Retailers are taking cues from other businesses, and even establishing partnerships with restaurants and high-value brands, by adding in-store attractions. And what attracts fires more and tasty food and soothing beverages? These days, when you shop, that’s exactly what you may be offered. And as a retail food store owner, offering fresh food and drinks might just be the next important service that you add to your offerings...
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4/15/2018 7:00 AM
National Restaurant Association Offers Small Business Health Plan
Association health plans (AHPs), an alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been a topic of great interest around Washington these days. It remains to be seen whether the proposed expansion of AHPs will come to fruition, but for many small businesses within a common industry, association health plans are an attractive option that could benefit employers and employees alike. It is with that goal in mind that the National Restaurant Association has established the Restaurant & Hospitality Association (RHA) Benefit Trust, an AHP seeking to make health insurance more attainable for small restaurant businesses...
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4/8/2018 7:00 AM
Seven Tips To Reduce Food Waste In Your Restaurant
In North America, we produce an estimated [link 1] 70 billion tons of food waste each year. That’s a lot of perfectly good grub that gets tossed out, and a significant big chunk of that figure is from restaurants.
But why should you care, as long as you consistently have the resources you need to keep your customers happy? It turns out your customers care about food waste. According to a survey...
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4/1/2018 7:00 AM
It's My Party and I'll Reply If I Want To
Of all the people in your life, who’s birthday do you remember? Think of the people that make-up this (assumedly) small portion of people – who are they? It most likely consists of your dearest friends and family members. Folks who know your favorite foods, desires, and well, probably your birthday. These are powerful connections you’ve made over time...
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